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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Tymnet is at 2400 baud
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.192140.13633@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Mar 91 19:21:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.052414.15521@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Mar13.052414.15521@ecst.csuchico.edu> by lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner):
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| I've told a lot of people in my area about this, and have been understandably
| overjoyed at the news that nobody knew, and I wonder by Tymnet doesn't 
| recognize it.  But it's there, and hopefully it might work for you.
+---------------

BT Tymnet can't change every node over that quickly; they need to do it during
low usage times, or get their big customers upset.  (We use excess capacity.
Tymnet's (and Telenet's) real moneymakers are the big corporations that use
X.25 links to ship massive amounts of data around.  Granted, the biggest ones
have direct X.25 links; but many of them depend on data coming from/going to
smaller companies that can't justify hanging X.25 hardware off their
computers.)

If they announce that they're doing this, the fear is that many corporations
will scream for them to change their (or their vendors'/customers') local
node(s) over quickly.  Which can't be done without causing even more
screaming...  So they're doing it slowly and quietly, to minimize the
aggravation to themselves and their bigger customers.  Sure, it aggravates
*us* a bit when we find out, but remember that we're not their real
moneymakers.  We just have to live with it.  (Nor do I think this is
necessarily wrong.)

++Brandon
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